While in upstate New York, I took a class on healing Thai Chi. The instructor mentioned that we should be breathing in through the nose and not the mouth in practice because it restores more oxygen to the brain than mouth breathing which is more of a fight & flight mechanism.I thought , wow I never new that and I have been doing yoga a while now. it reminded me that you can never stop learning if you want to optimize your well being and your ability to help others. I watched a sales presentation on lasers once and the video had the standard doc in the white coat behind a bunch of books stating that 100% of his patients improved with the laser. I started getting this "Amway brain wash"Danger Will Robinson" feeling wash over me and had an impulse to take my own flight from the program. When the sales rep spoke to me regarding my hesitation with the studies he said a bit exasperated "Well, Dr. Pearl, you're a unique individual - you're a Lifetime Learner and sometimes you just have to pull the trigger. I suppose being called a Lifetime Learner isn't such a bad thing.
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